existence Quotes

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.

My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.

If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection.

The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.

A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.

Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.

I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work', because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.